CAS PH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ursula K. Le Guin
31 Jan 2017
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Ph150- lecture 3- mill and omelas short story. There are two kinds of pleasure: physical and mental. Mental pleasures are better than bodily pleasures. Anyone who has experienced both types of pleasure prefers pleasures of the mind. Means: what we deem necessary to meet that goal. In itself/ for the sake of something else. Happiness is the only thing that is valuable in itself. It is the end, we can"t answer why we want to be happy, we just do. Motives don"t matter to the morality of an action. There are general rules for what actions do/not lead to happiness. The reason the theory of right action depends of the theory of value is that these actions would be worthless if happiness wasn"t valuable. The ones who walked away from omelas by ursula le guin. Omelas is the happiest community you can picture. Has all higher and lower pleasures you can imagine.
